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Bunohan (Return To Murder) (2011)

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Adil, a young Muay Thai kick-boxer, has just fled an honor fight-to-the-death. Ilham, an assassin who is also Adil's stepbrother, is promptly hired by the organizer of the death match to kill the fugitive. Looking for somewhere to hide and recover, Adil and a childhood friend take shelter in the Bunohan boxing club where Adil started his career. Ilham, meanwhile, has never been back to Bunohan since the day he left many years ago. Upon returning, memories of loneliness and abandonment flood his

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The pace of these scenes can be trying -- and would be torture for viewers who came expecting a more conventional Asian crime film -- but it suits the movie's concern with family histories, rural isolation, and the inevitability of development.

September 16, 2011 Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
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The film is too ambitious for its own skills.

June 27, 2012 Full Review Source: UR Chicago Magazine
John Esther
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A cold-blooded contract killer is on the prowl for the head of an up-and-coming kickboxer, who owns a piece of land that a schoolteacher greedily covets in his pursuit of money--All three of them being half-brothers. If that doesn't catch your attention, add in the quirks of a wayang kulit tok dalang father who's turning senile, a broken quasi-mystical family, the dark side of underground Muay Thai, a truly rustic-bordering-on-poverty-stricken Kelantanese setting, and spectacular cinematography in the swamps and coasts of Kelantan. I must admit, the film really deserves all those awards (I'm still amazed that they filmed in croc-infested waters!). This film is a statement that says there's still hope for the Malaysian film scene. Hats off to the director, producers, and actors. All the praises aside, there are parts of it which I still don't understand , though, particularly the mystical aspects.
March 10, 2013
Zulhilmi Ghouse
Zulhilmi Ghouse
Bunohan is a fascinating insight into the reality of life and culture of rural communities that are so bound by tradition and superstition. The story of the conflict between three brothers - who are separated from earlier in their life, who develops personality so different from each other. These brothers then was dragged back home by their destiny, each with their own agenda and thus became an analogy of the contradiction between modernity and tradition in the daily life in a rural community.

Between blood relations, lust, greed, revenge, heritage and memories of the past, all of these elements are mixed, giving rise to the turn of events by the human characters in this film that leads into the narrative climax.
March 2, 2013
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